PKI Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 100 93
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +63
Contract jobs citing PKI 7 10 52
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.44% 0.54% 2.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 1.54% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 30
10th Percentile £440 £450 £453
25th Percentile £481 £459 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £606 £597 £675
90th Percentile £640 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £542 £575
% change year-on-year +1.48% -5.75% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £55.70
90th Percentile - - £56.12
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -56.73% -10.57%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

PKI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 662 651 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.14% 34.87% 36.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 383 545
10th Percentile £185 £199 £211
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 19
10th Percentile £15.70 £12.30 £11.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.68 £15.50
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +8.89% -40.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £24.08 £54.38
90th Percentile £63.60 £34.11 £60.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -42.00% +11.11% +73.08%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PKI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

PKI job vacancy trend in Scotland

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PKI

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Scotland

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PKI

PKI
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +11 7 £550 - 1
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Information Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Security Operations
3 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 4 (57.14%) Email Filtering
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (42.86%) SIEM
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) RHCE
2 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Qualys
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 1 (14.29%) McAfee
3 1 (14.29%) Thales
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam